#MMO

Richard Garriott, otherwise known as Lord British, has been working on a spiritual successor to the Ultima series for quite some time now. Our last post about the game was nearly five years ago, but the title has been available on Steam Ear...

One of the defining additions to games this generation has been the "photo mode". This quickly accessible option removes all HUD information and lets players line up the perfect shot for sharing on social media or with friends. The recently...

The Final Fantasy XIV team has one hell of a way of dropping a patch on its playerbase. The notes for 4.2 basically comprise a short story, detailing myriad quality-of-life improvements like more bag space, as well as ancillary co...

Odds are if you started World of Warcraft in the last few years, you may not have even seen several of the zones -- or entire expansions for that matter. Old content has long been a burden or a boon for MMOs, and when you're knee deep in si...

I first got into Lord of the Rings Online by way of a giveaway (which I won at Destructoid when I was a reader!) that granted me a copy of it. I loved it, but didn't stick with it. Turbine, and now Standing Stone Games, did.
Staggering...

[Update: The full patch notes are out, and mostly complete -- we just need more information on the new crafting items.]
As always, Final Fantasy XIV's new 4.2 patch is accompanied by a massive notes dump, and you can read the prelimina...

I'm not entirely sure how these things happen, but every now and again I'll find myself looking for a more familiar game to pick up. Sometimes it's as simple as a few matches of Overwatch, other times a few rounds of Street Fighter, bu...

We haven't heard much of anything about BioWare's upcoming Anthem since its reveal at E3, but it seems like the expected launch window of "Fall 2018" isn't going to happen. According to a report by Kotaku, three people closely tied to the p...

Another year, another year of Star Trek Online, arguably the oldest continuously running Trek property now that it's set to celebrate its 8th birthday.
As with previous anniversary celebrations, Cryptic have stuffed a bunch of activiti...

Square Enix dumped a ton of info on Patch 4.2 for Final Fantasy XIV in the early morning today, just 11 days before it's actually scheduled to arrive. It's called "Rise of a New Sun," and will see a number of alterations to the housing mar...

Although the World of Warcraft Classic servers on the way (they don't even have a window yet, but the project is confirmed), right now, Vanilla is officially (read: private servers exist but aren't supported by Blizzard) dead and burie...

Anyone checking out the Steam Workshop for global smash DOTA 2 may be surprised to see a familiar spiritual canine making an appearance in the battle-arena title.Capcom have officially submitted a courier design to the free-to-play title, n...

Every so often, especially during lull spots like right now, the Final Fantasy XIV team re-ignites their free login campaign. You can take advantage of it starting this week through January 4, with some provisos attached.
For one, once you ...

Thanks to the diligence of trainer's around the world during Niantic's global catch challenge, legendary Pokemon Ho-oh will now be appearing in raids for the mobile catch-a-thon. He won't be limited to any regions, so you should start seein...

Final Fantasy XIV likes to keep players interested with three month major patch cycles, but in-between there's little events here and there that are the glue that holds it all together.
They're not above re-using them though, and just like ...

[Update: Articles on Massively Overpowered and Kotaku are reporting that Sony and Microsoft are offering refunds to owners of Marvel Heroes Omega, with some Xbox One players having received recompense automatically.]With glum inevitability,...

Final Fantasy XIV's patch 4.15 just dropped, and a lot of the bigger additions like the new mech-based PVP mode are being overshadowed by "performance actions," which allow Bards to play music for the first time. The whole thing is surprisi...

[Update: Massively OP is reporting that Marvel Heroes will be coming to an end far sooner than originally reported. An ex-employee of Marvel Heroes developer Gazillion told Massively that he was terminated as of today and that Ga...

As a Vanilla World of Warcraft player who has been present during every expansion, I've seen the game grow and regress in myriad ways.
World PVP eventually became a shell of its former self, "looking for group" functionality (LFG) was ...

Blizzard has finally announced when Antorus, the Burning Throne is going to arrive in World of Warcraft: Legion -- November 28 for normal and Heroic difficulties. For those who haven't been keeping up, both the horde and alliance have ...

In mid October, Final Fantasy XIV's new "Ultimate" raid, The Unending Coil of Bahamut, dropped. Meant for the top of the top (read: you have to beat a raid tier only 1-10% of any given server has cleared to even enter), this challenge is an...

In 1994, Warcraft started with a simple premise: Orcs versus Humans. It was an age-old idea that built off the precepts from classic fantasy novels and tabletop games, and one that endured for decades into the zeitgeist MMO iteration that p...

The cowboy-themed MMO, Wild West Online, will enter Early Access on November 15. According to developer 612 Games, the multiplayer title's 1.0 release is planned for "later this year."
Wild West Online's Early Acess alpha includes "over 100...

World of Warcraft is going to war with its next expansion, Battle for Azeroth. Blizzard shared the intro cinematic today at BlizzCon and an overview video, both of which you can find right here. Battle for Azeroth will bring players to Kul...

Today sees Blizzcon 2017 up and running, with many announcements expected regarding Blizzard's range of popular titles. But even before the opening ceremony, exciting news is coming out of Cali, such as the unveiling of this mammoth statue ...